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- ↑ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/fortescue-dudley-1604
- ↑ FORTESCUE, Dudley (d.1604), of Faulkbourne, Essex, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
- ↑ Diarmaid MacCulloch, Letters from Redgrave Hall (Suffolk Record Society, Boydell, 2007), pp. 82-3 nos. 132, 133.
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